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Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) and the European Investment Bank are pleased to present a webinar, titled ''Recent Trends in the Banking Sectors in Sub-Saharan'' to be held on Thursday, January 17th, 2019 at 1:00 pm (GMT) | 2:00 pm (Luxembourg) | 4:00 pm (Nairobi). This webinar is the first of the MFW4A-EIB "three webinars series" based on the bank's latest publication "Banking in Africa: Delivering on Financial Inclusion, Supporting Financial Stability".

MFW4A and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are organizing the third of a series of regional financial sector dialogues in Libreville, Gabon on 29-30 January 2019. This Central Africa edition will provide an ideal opportunity for assessing the level of development of the regional financial sector as well as the progress made in support of the financial integration in the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) on the one hand, and in the whole region on the other... Read more.

MFW4A and the African Development Bank (AfDB) jointly organized a stakeholder consultation workshop on October, 30-31, 2018 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, to present the findings and recommandations of two studies conducted this year and commissioned by the Migration and Development Fund: (1) Developing a Systematic Approach to Supporting Diaspora Investment in Africa; (2) The Opportunities and Risks of Digitization on the Remittance Market in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC). Read more.

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), jointly with the African Development Bank (AfDB), with some support from Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) organized a Stakeholder Dialogue and Consultation Workshop in Nairobi on October 25-26, 2018 for the Eastern and Southern Africa regions. This high-level meeting provided a platform to address challenges impeding the regional financial sector from fully playing its role as a catalyst for growth and to support economic and social development objectives, both at the national and regional levels. Read more.

MFW4A in collaboration with the IFC, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ/GIZ), CGAP, the Better than Cash Alliance at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the World Bank held its ninth annual Responsible Finance Forum (RFF), in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This first-ever edition in Africa gathered together leading investors, policymakers and practitioners to assess critical challenges in financial services in Africa. Read more.

Participants in this high-level meeting will take stock of ongoing reforms and identify priority actions which will form the basis of a roadmap for financial sector development initiatives within ECOWAS. This dialogue will identify financial and non-financial instruments with catalytic effects on the real economy of member-countries. Read more on the agenda.

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